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10/03/2011 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm – Second Lecture, Thursday March 10, 5:30, Jackman Humanities Centre, Room 100:“Blue is a Color Where it is Hard to Find Anything Missing: the Aran Islands, Venice, the Cyanotype and Agnes Varda’s Le Bonheur.” It might be easier To fail–with Land in Sight– Than gain–My Blue Peninsula– To perish–of Delight– Emily Dickinson, c. 1862 Through the […]

10/03/2011 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm – It might be easier To fail–with Land in Sight– Than gain–My Blue Peninsula– To perish–of Delight– Emily Dickinson, c. 1862 Through the landscape of the island (whether it be geographical or conceptual, like More’s Utopia), this blue lecture will focus on the Aran Islands, Fortuny’s Venice (a city of 117 islands), Mann’s Death in Venice, […]

09/03/2011 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm – First Lecture, Wednesday March 9, 5:30, Jackman Humanities Centre, Room 100:“Blue is the Color of Impossible Mourning: a Bower, a Sweet and a Crystal” Through the “Kernel” of psychoanalyst Nicolas Abraham, this blue lecture will focus on Proust’s La Prisonnière, Akerman’s La Captive, the Australian Bowerbird, Kieslowski’s Bleu and Hiorn’s Seizure. The lecture will be […]

04/03/2011 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – ELEANOR KAUFMAN, UCLA This paper will examine the fraught dynamics of the party and the group in Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason alongside some of his earlier dramatic works and in juxtaposition with Brecht’s “learning plays” or Lehrstücke.  Despite the differences between Sartre’s self-reflexive and emotively developed characters and Brecht’s express emphasis on the didactic […]

17/02/2011 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm –  Public lecture by Prof. Mae Smethurst (University of Pittsburgh) Prof. Smethurst is an internationally recognized expert on Noh theatre, especially from a comparatist perspective. Since she is also a trained classicist, Prof. Smethurst brings a unique perspective to the analysis of Japanese theatre. The fruits of this unusual combination of expertise are, among other things, […]

09/02/2011 @ 4:00 am – 6:00 pm – Le Centre d’Études de la France et du Monde Francophone (CEFMF) a l’honneur et le plaisir de vous inviter à deux conférences de   François MOUREAU   Mardi 8 février, 16h : « L’Amérique n’a aucun avenir: une vision des Lumières »   Département de littérature comparée salle de séminaire Isabel Bader Theatre 93 Charles […]

08/02/2011 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – a l’honneur et le plaisir de vous inviter à deux conférences de   François MOUREAU   « L’Amérique n’a aucun avenir: une vision des Lumières »     Présentation par Roland Le Huenen

04/02/2011 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Dr. Saidiya Hartman Professor, English & Comparative Literature Columbia University An event sponsored by the Centre for the Study of the United States, Department of English and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies Please register at: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=9200

02/02/2011 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – The Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium and The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies are pleased to present Alan Galey (University of Toronto) “Upgrading the Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technologies between the Archive and the Book” Wednesday 2 February 2011 Tea: 4:00 p.m. Talk: 4:15 p.m. Senior Common Room, Burwash Hall 89 Charles Street West University […]

27/01/2011 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – A talk by Laura U. Marks, Simon Fraser University, presented by the Cinema Studies Institute, the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, and the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. This talk draws from Deleuze, Leibniz, and classical Islamic thought to elucidate different manners of cinematic unfolding. We can think of […]